[R] How to extract an interval of "hour:minute" type

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 16:33:20 CET 2011


Here is one way:

> x <- read.table(text = "4352;2011-09-02 21:30:00;3242;
+ 4352;2011-09-02 21:31:00;3315;
+ 4352;2011-09-02 21:32:00;4241;
+ 4352;2011-09-02 21:33:00;5394;", sep = ';', as.is = TRUE)
> # create a 'character' of just the time.  If the data is of
> # the format above, 'substring' can be used
> x$time <- substring(x$V2, 12, 16)
> subset(x, time >= '21:31' & time <= '21:32')
    V1                  V2   V3 V4  time
2 4352 2011-09-02 21:31:00 3315 NA 21:31
3 4352 2011-09-02 21:32:00 4241 NA 21:32
>


On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:02 AM, ikuzar <razuki at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I 'd like to know how to extract an interval of "hour:minute" type from a
> column of POSIXlt POSIXct type.
> For instance:
>
> my_data.csv:
>
> 4352;2011-09-02 21:30:00;3242;
> 4352;2011-09-02 21:31:00;3315;
> 4352;2011-09-02 21:32:00;4241;
> 4352;2011-09-02 21:33:00;5394;
> ...
> 4352;2011-09-02 01:02:00;67;
> 4352;2011-09-02 01:03:00;67;
> 4352;2011-09-02 01:04:00;67;
> ....
>
> I loaded my_data.csv into a data.frame.
>
> I 'd like to select rows where times T satisfies 21:30:00<= T <=22:30:00. I
> do not worry about the date. I just need  the time to select the interval
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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